Microsoft Windows Azure Pack

Cloud Cruiser for Microsoft Windows Azure Pack

Recognizing that cloud financial management is an essential component to delivering scalable, profitable, and financially transparent cloud services, Microsoft now includes a customized Express version of Cloud Cruiser’s cloud financial management solution with Windows Server 2012 R2 via Windows Azure Pack (WAP). Cloud Cruiser Express works directly from the WAP portal so customers can seamlessly manage both the operational and financial aspects of their Windows Azure private or hosted public cloud from a single pane of glass.

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Azure Public Cloud

Cloud Cruiser for Azure Public Cloud

Cloud Cruiser provides an out-of-the-box integration to Microsoft Azure, delivering detailed public cloud usage and cost tracking with the new Usage API for all Azure subscriptions and enterprise accounts. With Cloud Cruiser you can use the new instance meta-data (tags) information from the API to aggregate usage by business function, environment or project. The automated usage data collection and transformation process takes full advantage of the hourly granularity of the API to provide accurate detail and visibility into who is using what Azure service. Cloud Cruiser leverages granular consumption information to analyze usage trends, identify under- or over-provisioned resources, forecast future demand, and perform chargeback and billing.

For many enterprises, public cloud usage accounts for just a portion of their overall computing spend. Cloud Cruiser adds enormous value because it is designed from the ground up for hybrid cloud environments and can automate the collection, analytics, and chargeback of costs from Azure and any other public, private, or traditional IT computing platform in your datacenter. You can eliminate hours spent pouring over spreadsheets and gain automatic cost transparency in minutes by having a single holistic view to all of your usage and spending from a single dashboard.

With Cloud Cruiser for Azure, you can:

Automate chargeback of your Azure resources and other public and/or private, or traditional computing environments in your enterprise

Provide detailed cost allocation by business function, environment, project, and more